After nearly a decade of scripting—and acting in—B movies for Roger Corman, future Oscar-winner Robert Towne was hired to script this 1968 big-budget film about the Mexican Revolution. His writing partner was none other than Sam Peckinpah, who would write and direct his breakthrough film, The Wild Bunch, the following year. The two provide plenty of literate narration for Robert Mitchum’s Yankee aviator, whose aerial scouting helps Pancho Villa (Yul Brynner) rack up battlefield victories. Charles Bronson plays Villa’s trigger-happy lieutenant, and Herbert Lom is Villa’s rival, General Huerta.